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Coach on the court
Had this happen to me over the holiday's in a girls JV game:
Late in the second half with the visiting team getting beat pretty bad (35+ running clock in effect), a girl from said visiting team runs in and jumps for a rebound, but collides with her teammate and lands hard on her backside. She starts screaming and crying in pain. Home team gets the rebound, but before they continue up court, I blow the whistle to stop play because of the injury. But before I have a second to look up, visiting coach is running from the bench across the court in a panic. "Are you OK Sara????!!!!!" he say's. Girl slowly gets up, drys her tears and the whole gym claps for her as she is replaced with a sub. We play the final five minutes, no problems, but then my partner asks me as we are walking to the locker room why I didn't give the visiting coach a T for coming onto the floor without beckoning him? Actually, at the time, I don't think it even crossed my mind to give the coach a T. But my reply to my partner was "game management" and "team was down by 35, why T him up and make it worse." My partner didn't really like the answer, stating our job is to enforce the rules of the game, all the rules, not just the ones we liked or felt managed the game to our liking. I'm not the arguing type, but I told him, "well if you felt so strongly about what happened why didn't you call the T?" I don't think he liked that answer either :p Anyway, my question is did I do the right thing? Looking at the rules book, I found 10-4 and the note it makes under art. 5. Anywhere else I should be looking in the book? I still feel this was a good case of game management, but would like to hear other opinions on the matter. |
I consider the coach beckoned. Good call (no call) on your part.
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Smack your partner upside the head for suggesting a T in that situation
In a situation like that, the coach is always going to be beckoned in my game. No need to be looking for trouble like that. |
Common sense prevails
A JV girls game, out of hand, a running clock. Why prolong the game with a tech
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She's Hurt, He Was Beckoned ...
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Same thing with coaches that prevent, or help break up fights. They were also beckoned. |
Your partner is a plumber.
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That coach was beckoned whether it's 35 points or 1 point... |
The coach is always considered beckoned when a player is injured. Period.
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The "beckon" is automatic with injuries. Let your partner call this T and back it up to the powers. He'll find himself working a lot of JV girls games, and might even find his middle school assignments increasing. |
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PTflea2 - maybe you can invite your partner to our lovely chat room and he can realize how wrong he is. Good job with your game management skills !!!!!! |
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I know my original post painted my partner as a bit of a jerk, but I've worked with him before and he's actually pretty good, if only a stickler for the letter of the law. I don't want to open a can of worms with this statement, but to my partner, and other officials I'm sure, the rules of basketball are simply black and white with no shades of gray. But to me, there are times when game management, and even common sense play a role in our officiating. |
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Let me add this; the rule says the coach has to be beckoned. It does not say the following: 1. How "beckoned" is defined. 2. He has to be beckoned before he comes out. 3. A rules stickler could still wave the coach on as he's running and feel fine. IOW, there's nothing even in the black and white rules that says a T has to be given here. |
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I think that I understand the point of this comment. I am assuming that you mean ONCE PLAY IS STOPPED, the coach is always considered to be beckoned. At the same time, in a varsity boys game, if I have a player who "may" be injured -- no head injury, let's say a finger injury -- the coach better NOT come running on the floor getting hit in the head with a pass as the other team is fastbreaking down the floor. The lower the level of the game, the quicker I am hitting my whistle. In all cases, IF the coach wishes to come out, he/she has been beckoned. If there is an injury where a player is screaming in pain, almost certainly stop immediately -- coach considered beckoned. I say almost because if it is the third or fourth time in a game (this happens more frequently in soccer), I may not stop immediately. If a player has a ball bounce off of their finger, comes down somewhat awkwardly, or bumps into another player not resulting in a foul, I am not going to stop the play immediately -- and the coach better stay "home." 35 point, JV girls game, I am sounding my whistle immediately and beckoning just as quick. Technical foul? Not a chance.....UNLESS of course, the coach comes out to tend to the official instead of his/her player. |
How about this one?
I was told once by a senior official (trainer) that a good technique (for someone who has not obviously snapped a bone or is bleeding) was to go over to them and quietly ask them, "Can you play? Can you continue?"
If no, beckon the coach, if yes and they get up, limp off, etc, let play continue - of course that IS if the coach hasn't come on already. I used this technique in a GV game this past Tues, and it worked pretty well. Thoughts on this technique? |
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On the other hand, in high school-aged games, I will typically wave the coach OFF the court/field until I have had a chance to ask the very question that you posed, grunewar. This gives the player a chance to be able to stay in the game. If the coach insists on coming out, I insist on player removal per the rules. Once again, in the younger age groups I strongly encourage the coaches to wait for my signal -- in the event of a possible "real" injury, I am stopping the play quickly and beckoning the coach. |
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